📅 2 Yanüari 1887
The first issue of A Redempção began a recurring “Crônica de Anos” column that named captains of the bush and other agents of recapture. Its editor, Antônio Bento, made the paper part of an...
📅 8 Yanüari 1887
A Redempção reported that police at Jundiaí had ordered Black passengers off a train on the basis of race, treating Black mobility as grounds for suspicion. The account makes railway travel a...
📅 9 Yanüari 1887
In another “Crônica de Anos,” A Redempção listed people it identified as fugitive catchers. Naming these agents challenged the anonymity and local legitimacy of slave-catching. The newspaper was a...
📅 13 Yanüari 1887
The paper’s “Álbum abolicionista” recorded three manumissions. This section preserved details of individual acts of freedom, but its publication does not mean that every person could secure release on...
📅 20 Yanüari 1887
The January 20 issue continued to identify local figures involved in recapture and defended its abolitionist orientation. In a society where enslavers and their agents used law, police, and private...
📅 23 Yanüari 1887
An article in “Propaganda abolicionista” called for ending slavery and connected the demand to the possibility of Paulista separation. The juxtaposition shows the political range of abolitionist...
📅 3 Febrüari 1887
A “Crônica Negra” account described severe working conditions and bodily violence, including iron restraints and punishment. Such reporting challenged narratives of benevolent mastery and brought...
📅 17 Febrüari 1887
In “O Africano é livre,” A Redempção advanced a legal argument based on the 1831 prohibition of the transatlantic slave trade to challenge the enslavement of Africans. Abolitionists used the law’s...
📅 13 Mart 1887
A March “Crônica Negra” described people forced to work on Sundays and subjected to iron restraints, hunger, and punishment in Campinas. Reporting such conditions confronted the claim that enslavers...
📅 3 April 1887
The “Álbum abolicionista” reported Rita’s manumission without a future-service condition. Publishing this case alongside conditional releases made the difference between formal freedom and freedom...
📅 15 Mei 1887
A Redempção’s album recorded 47 manumissions in Cristina with differing terms: some unconditional, others tied to years of service or valuation arrangements. These varied conditions caution against...
📅 18 Sèptèmber 1887
A Redempção used satire to ridicule fugitive catchers and describe free people being reduced to slavery. The issue challenged the everyday policing that could blur the boundary between enslaved and...
📅 5 Yanüari 1888
A Redempção argued that mass escapes and the “cleansing” of plantations had led enslavers to abandon claims over enslaved people. The editorial treats collective flight as a force that made the...
📅 29 Yanüari 1888
An A Redempção article argued that flight should no longer be treated as a crime. The claim contested the legal and police framework that made an enslaved person’s self-liberation punishable while...
📅 1 Mart 1888
The newspaper published “O crime da Penha do Rio do Peixe,” reporting the murder of police delegate Joaquim Firmino de Araújo Lima, who had sheltered two people in an emancipation process and joined...
📅 4 Mart 1888
A Redempção returned to the killing of Joaquim Firmino in an article titled “Penha do Rio do Peixe.” Repeated coverage made the murder a public indictment of the slaveholding order and its allies....
📅 18 Mart 1888
An editorial titled “Não se iludam os jornais” criticized proposals that would declare people free yet bind them to former owners’ labor. It described organized mass flight despite police blockades...
